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[liberationtech] 2018 IFF Fellowship Program Application now live

questions about the fellowship or the IFF, please ask! https://internetfreedomfestival.org/2018-fellowship/ The process closes June 30. Also RT!: https://twitter.com/InternetFF/status/871785282051358720 Thanks! -- Nick Farr Community Coordinator, Internet Freedom Festival US: +1 203 441 3277

Re: [liberationtech] Verification of censorship resistance

Hi Richard, The OONI project [1] (Open Observatory of Network Interference) produces country by country breakdowns of the types of censorship techniques occurring. [1]: https://ooni.torproject.org/ The project has a set of tests which attempt to determine exactly how content is getting blocked

[liberationtech] AnnealMail: post-quantum fork of Enigmail

, Enigmail, or CodeCrypt. -- Nick Doiron -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moder

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[liberationtech] Round Two of TechChange Diploma Program in Tech for Monitoring & Evaluation

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Re: [liberationtech] Trusting tools under US jurisdiction

Quoth carlo von lynX: > I haven't found any place that offers an independently built > Android binary for Signal. I use an independently built binary from the repository here[0], and know others who do the same (or build their own). I would be more concerned about some undercover NSA employee

Re: [liberationtech] [governance] Support iPOP Tactical Operations in Pakistan Earthquake

know them. Regards, Nick > On 26 Oct 2015, at 18:42, Arzak Khan <direc...@ipop.org.pk> wrote: > > Dear All, > > A major earthquake measuring 8.1 on Richter scale has struck remote northeast > region in Afghanistan and northern areas of Pakistan killing more than 200 &g

[liberationtech] Tor relay reinstated in the Kilton Library: a win for free software-based anonymity

Phew, the first Tor relay of the Library Freedom Project has been reinstated. Delightful news. - Forwarded message from Free Software Foundation - Dear free software supporter, In July, Kilton Library in Lebanon, New Hampshire set up a relay server in the Tor network,

Re: [liberationtech] Looking for Feedback | Ombuds

, Aug 19, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Nick Skelsey nskel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, A friend and I have been working on (yet another) anti-censorship tool and we are getting ready to release it. The tool is kind of like a BBS, but the interesting thing about it is that all public statements made through

Re: [liberationtech] Looking for Feedback | Ombuds

of posts in the blockchain or entire posts? also what blockchain are you using? On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Nick Skelsey nskel...@gmail.com wrote: I am bumping this post just once. I was hoping to see if anybody had any hold on kind of thoughts before we continue on our merry way building

Re: [liberationtech] Looking for Feedback | Ombuds

Steve, My responses are inline. Thanks for the questions! On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Steve Weis stevew...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nick. I'll throw out some questions: - The Bitcoin blockchain is 40GB and growing at about 4GB a month. Will end users have to download that much data

[liberationtech] Fwd: New Online Diploma Program in Tech for Monitoring Evaluation

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[liberationtech] TechChange Online Certificate Course in Digital Safety

presentations about a relevant topic to the class. Let us know if you're interested. Cheers, Nick *** Basics of Digital Safety https://www.techchange.org/online-courses/basics-of-digital-safety/ August 17th- September 11th Course Description In our digitally connected world, new risks to our

Re: [liberationtech] Ostel

Quoth Richard Brooks: Is Ostel functional? Have issues getting it to work, the CsipSimple echo appears not to be functional. FWIW I used it with Jitsi (Debian) on one end and CSipSimple (cheap Android tablet) with success many times last year, audio only. Haven't used it recently, but it

Re: [liberationtech] Looking for: ICT/telecom expertise in country in Nepal

Done! On 28 Apr 2015, at 22:12, Indiver Badal i...@indiver.com wrote: Hi Nick Sure, please add me to the list. I'm ready to assist in any way I can. Thanks Indiver On Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 12:12 AM Nick Ashton-Hart nash...@consensus.pro mailto:nash...@consensus.pro wrote: + Indiver

Re: [liberationtech] Looking for: ICT/telecom expertise in country in Nepal

to help: http://kathmandulivinglabs.org/ On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.edu wrote: From: Nick Ashton-Hart nash...@consensus.pro via bestb...@lists.bestbits.net If you, or someone you know, has hands-on ICTs and especially telecom infrastructure experience

Re: [liberationtech] Looking for: ICT/telecom expertise in country in Nepal

: Dibya Khatiwada and Rustan Shrestha. The more the merrier! On 27 Apr 2015, at 20:12, Bill Woodcock wo...@pch.net wrote: On Apr 27, 2015, at 5:53 AM, Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.edu wrote: From: Nick Ashton-Hart nash...@consensus.pro via bestb...@lists.bestbits.net If you, or someone you

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: A crowdfunding campaign to build a free baseband

Quoth z...@manian.org: The people on Indiegogo project look legit and their comments line up with what I know about the space. An open source 3 or 4g baseband would be huge boon to anonymity and countersurveillance efforts. Anyone have further references on the project creators? Search

[liberationtech] 3D Printing Prosthetics: A conversation with Jon Schull and Jeremy Simon of e-NABLE (January 22, 2015 | 10:00-11:00 am EST)

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Re: [liberationtech] Data from Iran shows which circumvention tools are most popular

Quoth Griffin Boyce: [1] for comparison, downloads through Satori have been around 82k from AWS since March. That's great, too, Griffin! Is that 82k from Iran, or in total? -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated:

[liberationtech] Online Certificate Course in Tech for Emergency Management Starts Monday...

-election-observer-iwatch/ Hope you have a chance to join us, Nick == TC103: Tech Tools and Skills for Emergency Management This four-week online professional development certificate course will explore how new communication and mapping technologies are being used to respond to disasters, create

Re: [liberationtech] Proposal for more-trustable code from app stores; comments welcome.

are ignorant enough of how computers actually work to not realise the sacrifices they're making, but I don't think this article is targeted for them. Nick -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu

Re: [liberationtech] Experts report potential software back doors in U.S. standards

Quoth Graham Donaldson: I thought Elliptic Curve has been considered an NSA plant for some time now... the article seems a bit late to the party? Did you read the article? It is about the report NIST commissioned in response to the Dual Elliptic Curve discovery, and their thoughts on NSA

Re: [liberationtech] data mine the snowden files [was: open the snowden files]

Quoth edhelas: What about a Torrent ? We can easily share the magnet everywhere Note that there is a torrent of the cryptome archive up to 2011: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ba401110a60ad844a09d4219e5f95a46385f7410 But yes, bittorrent seems like a reasonable way to distribute this sort of stuff. That

Re: [liberationtech] distributing Cryptome June 2014 [was: data mine the snowden files]

Quoth coderman: based on feedback, here is what i intend: 1. A torrent of: USB-1.rar USB-2.rar Update-13-1231.rar Could you do tarballs or zip files, rather than rar files? They're much easier to deal with than recent rars using free software (the only program I know that will do it is

Re: [liberationtech] Recently sold sensenetworks has creepy buying habits tracking feature

), but I didn't realise that was already widely deployed. It's probably a combination of several horrible technologies. Nick -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo

Re: [liberationtech] A guide to Email Self-Defense, from the Free Software Foundation

have it seems like a reasonable step 0 to me. Nick -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing

Re: [liberationtech] PBS Frontline: United States of Secrets ( 2 part series )

Quoth coderman: anyone know where to obtain a stand-alone video file for DL? (any encodings OK...) Part 1: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:71678c3be35556b49ae8cf1c8657d067052cf827 Part 2: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:d6d534d1de3ad8ae995313636d2e437941c107b9 -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on

Re: [liberationtech] Anonymity / privacy considerations of HTTP 'referer' information

and not noticed much at all), but maybe they just haven't considered it yet. The problem is that people might visit websites that fully or partially identify them, and then follow links to sites that will then track/log the HTTP 'referer' information. Yeah, sounds like a reasonable concern to me. Nick

Re: [liberationtech] Anonymity / privacy considerations of HTTP 'referer' information

and not noticed much at all), but maybe they just haven't considered it yet. The problem is that people might visit websites that fully or partially identify them, and then follow links to sites that will then track/log the HTTP 'referer' information. Yeah, sounds like a reasonable concern to me. Nick

Re: [liberationtech] PBS Frontline: United States of Secrets ( 2 part series )

Thanks for the recommendation, I look forward to watching this soon. Requires Flash There are copies that don't require flash available from torrent websites, thankfully. -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated:

Re: [liberationtech] Chrome Chromium forbidding extensions from outside their store

Quoth Andrew Cady: Appparently what is hard-coded into the source is the default value of com.google.Chrome.ExtensionInstallSources. (Also hard-coded, I presume, is the SSL certificate for the domain.) You can override the defaults, though, so maybe I've overstated it. Here is how:

Re: [liberationtech] Satori - distributed tamper-resistant circumvention tools

Quoth Andrew Cady: On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 12:35:39PM -0400, Nick wrote: if you're worried about an evil google, hey, they control the browser, so you've already lost. I use Chromium and update it through my distro, so no, Google does not control the browser (/usr/bin/chromium). Me too

Re: [liberationtech] Satori - distributed tamper-resistant circumvention tools

of the extension's control, and besides, if you're worried about an evil google, hey, they control the browser, so you've already lost. Nick -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu

Re: [liberationtech] Satori - distributed tamper-resistant circumvention tools

Quoth Griffin Boyce: Nick wrote: Can you definitely not sign extensions with a private key? This is not an option available to any of my extensions or apps, unfortunately. There's reference to it in the documentation, but I've never seen this as an option for apps or for my developer

Re: [liberationtech] DuckDuckGo and PRISM

Quoth carlo von lynX: At least DDG doesn't correlate search strings to Google identification cookies, so that is something better than nothing, but still.. I think that's actually a very significant usability improvement. Sure you can tell people don't allow cookies for google, unless you

Re: [liberationtech] LibrePlanet 2014 keynote

Quoth Jonathan Wilkes: Has anyone seen this: http://media.libreplanet.org/u/zakkai/m/free-software-for-freedom-surveillance-and-you/ If that is indeed what people saw when they watched a live stream going over Tor, I'm very impressed.  Interested to know more about the setup. Yep, and it

Re: [liberationtech] GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 03:31:14PM +, Yishay Mor wrote: https://twitter.com/guardiannews/status/439059744678887424/photo/1 For those who don't enjoy being treated like cattle, prodded to open links with zero information as to why, the tweet in question reads: It's not like they're peering

Re: [liberationtech] Ostel: encrypted phone calls

it was inevitable, but if an Android client can do good video, then presumably laptops ought to manage it too. Thanks, Nick -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

Re: [liberationtech] Google Unveils Tools to Access Web From Repressive Countries | TIME.com

Despite the provenence of the story, I'm still suprised there was no mention of Google's cooperation with repressive elements of its own government through PRISM and the like. Or (though this is probably far too optimistic) a mention of whether surveillance as overarching paradigm is

Re: [liberationtech] NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:49:46AM +0200, Moritz Bartl wrote: A self-hosted mail provider will obviously *not* help much against NSAs mass collection of emails and email addresses. Don't sell it as a solution in this context. Well the article seems to be talking about address books, as opposed

Re: [liberationtech] Sometimes crypto can be easy

On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 10:03:11AM -0400, Nathan of Guardian wrote: Oh, yes... we are working on an improved Jitsi setup tutorial, but for now, it is all here: Brilliant, thanks for sharing. Would it be feasible and easy to work with Jitsi to have some sort of first startup thing where you

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Firefox OS with built in support for OpenPGP encryption

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 08:14:08AM -0400, Nathan of Guardian wrote: If you want to make plain old telephone calls through a service like Callcentric, I think you can also find a workeable solution for the NAT issue, but I don't have it documented exactly. The other aspect of this setup is

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Firefox OS with built in support for OpenPGP encryption

Quoth Nathan of Guardian: I've talked about this before, but the use of a MiFi portable network device providing wifi to a tablet/phablet running VoIP software on a clean ROM, provides the best of all worlds - telephony, portability and security. I lived life this way for awhile in New

Re: [liberationtech] From Snowden's email provider. NSL???

On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 11:26:21AM +0300, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: On 2013-08-08, at 11:53 PM, Mike Perry mikepe...@torproject.org wrote: It is profoundly encouraging to see that people of such courage and integrity as the Lavabit staff exist, and are willing to put everything on the line to

Re: [liberationtech] Successful experiment boosting the number of users using OpenPGP verification for file download

Quoth Werner Koch: On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:30, adrela...@riseup.net said: verification is the least secure method, to the download page? (You can see the design here: [3]) A: 1 in ~11 users. Actually [3] is the same URL as [1]. 3 should be this: [3]:

Re: [liberationtech] Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:19:22AM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: (See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence_(SSL) ) Would Convergence help here? I can't see how. If a government secretly aquired the SSL private keys for a site, and the site continued using them, then no convergence notary

Re: [liberationtech] WC3 and DRM

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 04:14:56AM -0700, Mitar wrote: Some very good arguments *for* DRM on the web: http://unitscale.com/mb/bomb-in-the-garden/ That's a very interesting article. Though the author isn't exactly arguing for DRM; his last paragraph calls out the W3C for their recent moves in

Re: [liberationtech] [cryptography] a Cypherpunks comeback

Looks like you got your wish: https://cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2013-July/11.html Quoth Ximin Luo: +1, especially since we are trying to promote the idea that crypto is *not* just for terrorists. If you are trying to make the point that by the govt's definition we are all

Re: [liberationtech] [cryptography] a Cypherpunks comeback

Looks like you got your wish: https://cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2013-July/11.html Quoth Ximin Luo: +1, especially since we are trying to promote the idea that crypto is *not* just for terrorists. If you are trying to make the point that by the govt's definition we are all

[liberationtech] Ensuring Free Access to Ideas in Public Spaces?

could help draft standards-language for The Responsibilities of Libraries to the Public but perhaps there's already such a document out there that could be updated or re-enforced. At this point, I'm trying to start a discussion. Thanks for your time, Nick 0: http://wiki.openitp.org/events:techno

Re: [liberationtech] Is Most Encryption Cracked?

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Collin Anderson col...@averysmallbird.com wrote: Wait, forgive me Libtech for amusing myself at the cost of your collective inboxes but, is it just me or is the security page on what purports to be a security tool empty? https://unsene.com/security.html It's

Re: [liberationtech] WC3 and DRM

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com wrote: On 07/15/2013 11:45 PM, Catherine Roy wrote: As a member of the HTML working group and the Restricted Media community group, my experience is that discussions within these groups surrounding the EME draft have been

Re: [liberationtech] Heml.is - The Beautiful Secure Messenger

noone said it would be closed source. That's peoples guess. Like, your guess, I guess. According to their twitter account, the answer is maybe: https://twitter.com/HemlisMessenger/statuses/354927721337470976 Peter Sunde (one of the people behind it) said eventually, but in my experience

Re: [liberationtech] Resources on electronic voting

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Marcin de Kaminski mar...@dekaminski.se wrote: Sorry to ask such a general question but I need input on the issue of electronic voting. Is there any comprehensive collection of resources or (preferably academic) research already out there? -- Too many emails?

Re: [liberationtech] Help with Privacy online

Quoth Robert Guerra: Is the mixmaster network still working? Might that not also be an option to send email messages anonymously? Yes, it is still working, albeit with only a few active relays. Tormail is a lot easier to use, though. But neither is likely appropriate for Justin, who is

Re: [liberationtech] Current state of Pidgin OTR vs Jitsi OTR

On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 07:02:03AM -0400, Tom Ritter wrote: If libpurple/pidgin itself has bugs, that compromises OTR. If an attacker gets in through a window or your sliding door, he's still in your house. And libpurple is full of bugs. That's the easy, go-to answer for this question.

Re: [liberationtech] DuckDuckGo vs Startpage

Quoth Mike Perry: If you're talking about attacks as strong as end-to-end correlation, then it turns out hidden services have similar weaknesses on that order. There are a number of points where the adversary can inject themselves either to observe or manipulate hidden service circuit

Re: [liberationtech] DuckDuckGo vs Startpage

Quoth Mike Perry: I find StartPage/Google immensely superior to Duckduckgo/Bing when searching the long tail of technical material (which I do frequently). In that case I agree StartPage probably makes sense. Search engines are mainly useful for long tail things; for other stuff I generally

Re: [liberationtech] DuckDuckGo vs Startpage

Quoth Mike Perry: Hidden service circuits require ~4X as many Tor router traversals as normal Tor exit circuits to set up, and unlike normal Tor exit circuits, they are often *not* prebuilt. Once they are set up, they still require 2X as many Tor router traversals end-to-end as normal

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

Quoth Jacob Appelbaum: I wonder how it performs for search between https://duckduckgo.com/ and http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion - has anyone performed any queries and computed information about time to connect, delays in searching, etc? Some kind analysis would be useful. Especially if we compare

Re: [liberationtech] Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report

article. If Businessweek is a bunch of lunkheads, then I may have to revise my opinions and suspicions. Nick 0: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-08/skypes-been-hijacked-in-china-and-microsoft-is-o-dot-k-dot-with-it -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change

[liberationtech] Online Certificate Course in Organizing and OpenGov (April 15 - May 10)

in animation so if anyone is interested in having their message or content animated then let us know. Cheers, Nick *** *TC104: Digital Organizing and Open Government (April 15th - May 10th)* http://techchange.org/online-courses/global-innovations-for-digital-organizing/ Technological innovation

Re: [liberationtech] New details on China TOM-Skype vulnerability

If you want to jump straight to the data, it's here: http://cs.unm.edu/~jeffk/tom-skype/ On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Graham Webster g...@gwbstr.com wrote: Bloomberg Businessweek reports on a researcher who cracked the list of sensitive terms that trigger the Chinese TOM-Skype application

Re: [liberationtech] [Freedombox-discuss] FBX Server/Client Communication Model and Threat Modeling

Daniel Kahn Gillmor d...@fifthhorseman.net writes: On 02/15/2013 10:25 PM, Nick M. Daly wrote: For example, is it acceptable if the client's secret key be exposed when the box is rooted by attackers? (Probably not, but that does let the host act as a trust proxy without relying

[liberationtech] FBX Server/Client Communication Model and Threat Modeling

conceptually interesting trust models). 3. What is the client application delivery model? Is it: 3.A. Browser-based interaction between client and server? 3.B. Browser-plugin-based interaction? 3.C. Appstore-based interaction? Thanks for your time, Nick -- Unsubscribe, change to digest

Re: [liberationtech] Gmail SSL Certificate Churn?

if anyone in the group knows whether there's any good reason they should or shouldn't push new certs on all machines at the same time? (Nick -- would like to see what you have online, but won't blast thru a certificate warning. Perhaps you have it somewhere else.) -Sky On Jan 12, 2013, at 2:57 PM

[liberationtech] Gmail SSL Certificate Churn?

/ The weirdest part isn't how the 0E:66... certificate disappeared on November 20th (or December 5th), but how it came back into circulation on or around December 20th. Thanks for any clarification you can offer on this situation, Nick -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https

Re: [liberationtech] Gmail SSL Certificate Churn?

those announcements. Additionally, while you're complaining about other people's SSL certificates, you should fix yours. :) It's broken for a reason, I'm trying something weird. Nick -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo

Re: [liberationtech] Forbes recommends tools for journalists

to MITM-based attacks (most worryingly: impersonation, which allows eavesdropping). That hardly seems appropriate for journalists, who need to keep their sources and conversations secret even from state- or law-enforcement-based actors, on occasion. Thanks for your time, Nick

[liberationtech] Online Certificate Course in Digital Organizing/Open Government

then let us know. Cheers, Nick *** *TC104: Digital Organizing and Open Government (Jan 7th - Feb 1st)* http://techchange.org/online-courses/global-innovations-for-digital-organizing/ Technological innovation is transforming civil society organization and creating new opportunities for government

Re: [liberationtech] Mailvelope: OpenPGP Encryption for Webmail

years. Both 2.A and 2.B can be fixed through GPA or another frontend, but that's still bad key-creation practice. However, it *does* show the long-form key ID (the last 8 bytes of the fingerprint), which is probably the minimum necessary to avoid most collision attacks. Nick -- Unsubscribe

Re: [liberationtech] Renesys: Syrian Internet Is Off The Air

Does anybody know what the Y-axis (vertical) scale is on Akamai's graph? If the scale is in millionths of Mbps (bps) then it's not a very large change. Also, does the Y-axis start at zero, 12-billion, or what? ...You'd think a content hosting company could put together a reasonable usage graph.

Re: [liberationtech] Security / reliability of cryptoheaven ?

. Nick -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

Re: [liberationtech] Security / reliability of cryptoheaven ?

(to address this at a few different levels) and why this paper was produced: http://files.cloudprivacy.net/ssl-mitm.pdf Nick -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

Re: [liberationtech] Security / reliability of cryptoheaven ?

, Nick Daly nick.m.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: From Security FAQ [3]: “CryptoHeaven manages public keys automatically and securely. User simply allows others to communicate with him through the use of Contacts within the CryptoHeaven system

Re: [liberationtech] CryptoParty Handbook

for your attackers. Is there a preferred contribution method? I didn't see one mentioned in the PDF, but I probably missed it. Nick 0: http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/08/passwords-under-assault/ -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu

Re: [liberationtech] Opinion on a paper?

well explained. Nick 0: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1450006 1: http://panopticlick.eff.org/ -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

Re: [liberationtech] Request for comments - a #CryptoParty-oriented keysigning protocol

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Matt Mackall wrote: Not strictly related, but I've heard some rumblings lately about the PGP web of trust being harmful because it can expose activists' social networks. A valid concern. If you hate social graphs, don't publish your key and ask that your

Re: [liberationtech] Good articles on the Pirate Party and Pirate Bay

Hi, Gabriella. Hi, list. David Meyer wrote one for us (techPresident) which I thought was quite good ... I am remote right now, so sadly no link. Best, Nick Judd -Original message- From: Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.edu To: Liberation Technologies liberationtech